1. Extent of coastline affected — 60 miles.
2. Population affected — 10,000.
3. Lives lost — 27, at the following places and to the following extent: Port au Bras, 7; Kelly’s Cove, 2; Lord’s Cove, 4; Taylor’s Bay, 5; Point au Gaul, 8; Allan’s Island, 1.
4. Property losses, approximately one million dollars.
5. Industrial effects — boats, fishing gear, supplies and other equipment of fifty per cent of the wage-earners destroyed.
6. Commercial effects — supplying merchants at half a dozen of the larger fishing communities stripped of property and goods rendering it impossible for them to continue in the trade.
In addition to the above, a thorough inspection was made of all settlements visited in the stricken area and many cases of a chronic nature were treated or prescribed for.
Staff—
Dr. L. Paterson,
Dr. C.F. Blackler
Dr. J.B. Murphy
District Nurse D. Cherry
Nurses Jackman, Hampton, Fitzgerald, Rendell